My first PC, a TRS-80 Model III (1980)

Z80 CPU, 2.03 MHz. 4kb of ram. No drives, just a cassette player/recorder, which frequently would lose your programs.

Good times.

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Good ol' Trash-80 ...learned Basic on one of those.
- Me too. From typing code in from magazines mostly.
  
  Same. I remember my first magazine script-kiddie code. Whenever you pressed a key on the keyboard, the screen would change to a different solid color.
  
  Yup. I remember typing in a sort of blackjack card game, but it was mostly text and used verrrry simple graphics for the cards. More than 1,000 lines of code, "hand crafted" as we say now.
  
  OMFG I remember typing in code on my TI-99/4A and then saving it to cassette. I tried writing my own game, but could only figure out how to move one thing at a time on the screen.
Do you still have it?
- No, I had to give up my first one when I went away to college. And then I bought another in about 1994 out of nostalgia. Then I realized how bad it was at computing and how large it was, and sold that one within a year.
I had TRS-80 Color Computer II. Pro tip for the cassette save- make dupes. Frequent rewinding to the beginning to reset the counter then fast forwarding to the saved data or blank space will eventually cause the tape to stretch. Over time, that will make saved data points begin progressively later, and may make longer saves completely unreadable.
The design is so fantastic I keep imagining buying one and retro-fitting it with modern parts but - even the broken ones are $400 now. Ugh.

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